Seth Grimes presented "Creating an AI Startup: What You Need to Know," at a May 20, 2021 Launch Annapolis + Maryland AI (https://www.meetup.com/MarylandAI) program, focusing on opportunity and resources for Maryland tech entrepreneurs.

1. Creating an AI Startup:
What You Need to Know
Seth Grimes
Alta Plana Corporation
@SethGrimes – grimes@altaplana.com
May 20, 2021

2. meetup.com/MarylandAI

3. AI is not a single technology breakthrough,
like a bat-wing stealth bomber. The race
for AI supremacy is not like the space race
to the moon. AI is not even comparable to
a general-purpose technology like
electricity. However, what Thomas Edison
said of electricity encapsulates the AI
future: “It is a field of fields … it holds the
secrets which will reorganize the life of the
world.” Edison’s astounding assessment
came from humility. All that he discovered
was “very little in comparison with the
possibilities that appear.”
https://www.nscai.gov/2021-final-report/

4. The Garden of Earthly Delights

5. AI is already ubiquitous in everyday life and the
pace of innovation is accelerating. We take for
granted that AI already shapes our lives in ways
small and big. A “smartphone” has multiple AI-
enabled features including voice assistants, photo
tagging, facial recognition security, search apps,
recommendation and advertising engines, and
less obvious AI enhancements in its operating
system. AI is helping predict the spread and
escalation of a pandemic outbreak, planning and
optimizing the distribution of goods and services,
monitoring traffic flow and safety, speeding up
drug and therapeutic discovery, and automating
routine office functions.
https://www.nscai.gov/2021-final-report/

6. Creating an AI Startup: What You Need to Know
Creating a startup: What You Need to Know
AI: What You Need to Know
• Technology
Creating an AI Startup: What You Need to Know
• Tech-Product-Market Fit
• Talent
• Funding
• Resources
Let’s focus on Maryland.

7. “Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of
computer science concerned with building smart
machines capable of performing tasks that typically
require human intelligence.”
Consider:
• Narrow AI
• Artificial General Intelligence
• Augmented Intelligence
What’s important is to create something (potentially)
useful.
https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence

8. https://towardsdatascience.com/the-future-with-reinforcement-learning-877a17187d54

10. http://www.cognub.com/index.php/cognitive-platform/

16. Other AI Community/Resources
Bethesda Artificial Intelligence Meetup,
https://www.meetup.com/Bethesda-Artificial-Intelligence-Meetup/
Data Works MD, https://www.meetup.com/DataWorks/
FastForward, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
https://ventures.jhu.edu/programs-services/fastforward/
bwtech@UMBC, https://bwtech.umbc.edu/
Betamore @CityGarage, https://betamore.com/en
ETC (Emerging Technology Centers) Baltimore,
https://www.etcbaltimore.com/

18. Panel
Jay Polaki HRGeckos.com
Vineet Sachdev EndoVigilant.com
Jeehye Yun RedShred.com

19. Creating an AI Startup:
What You Need to Know
Seth Grimes
Alta Plana Corporation
@SethGrimes – grimes@altaplana.com
May 20, 2021